“This supplemental state budget is simply another effort to alleviate crisis across our communities, by restoring the $6 billion Governor Wolf vetoed in December. It extends to schools, colleges and universities, critical access hospitals, agriculture programs, and other state-supported efforts the money needed to make it through the end of the fiscal year. This is not a satisfactory budget from the standpoint of providing long-range solutions, but it is a sensible one for averting harmful closures and layoffs looming in the weeks ahead. Under this plan, the structural deficit shrinks, but it does not disappear, so it remains a matter for negotiation and action in the upcoming state budget.”